[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: estimating feasibility of home-use wind turbine

[Steve Hussey]

For the lazier amongst us checkout the Skystream wind turbine that's  
aimed primarily at the residential inter-tied market:

http://www.skystreamenergy.com

It has 3.7m blades, it's quiet, rated at 18 kw, puts out 240v AC  
directly and costs about $10k US installed.

(It's not that I'm that lazy, its just I don't have a spare volvo,  
don't know how to wind my own armature, can't laminate my own  
propeller blades etc.) Sadly I live in a sheltered valley or I'd be  
really tempted.


Steve Hussey
Natural Resources Planner
San Juan Islands Conservation District

www.sanjuanislandscd.org
mailto:s.hussey at sanjuanislandscd.org


On Apr 9, 2007, at 9:19 PM, Chris Green wrote:

> Some people even build their own home-brewed wind turbines...There's a
> lot of info in the pages at this site:
>
> http://www.otherpower.com/otherpowerfront.shtml
>
> The step by step how-to starts here:
> http://www.otherpower.com/bigmills1.html